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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
— William Stanley Jevons
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
— William Stanley Jevons
Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.
— Dmitry Glukhovsky
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
— William Stanley Jevons
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
— William Sloane Coffin
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
— William Stanley Jevons
Property is only another name for monopoly.
— William Stanley Jevons
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
— William Stanley Jevons
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
— William Stanley Jevons
The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.
— William Stanley Jevons
The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.
— William Stanley Jevons
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.
— William Stanley Jevons
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.
— William Stanley Jevons
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
— William Stanley Jevons
But, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
— William Stanley Jevons
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ...
— Frances Trollope
A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
— William Stanley Jevons
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
— William Stanley Jevons
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
— William Stanley Jevons
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
— William Stanley Jevons
As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
— William Stanley Jevons
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
— William Stanley Jevons
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
— William Stanley Jevons
The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.
— William Stanley Jevons
I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
— James Patterson
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
— William Stanley Jevons
Locking minors away for decades doesn't solve anything.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
— William Stanley Jevons
